Lidbetter Collection
Item set
- Title
- Lidbetter Collection
- Alternative Title
- William Walpole Lidbetter Collection
- Creator
- Lidbetter, William Walpole
- Description
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The William Walpole Lidbetter collection housed at Rhodes University constitutes a primary source for the study of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, during the early to mid-twentieth century. Lidbetter, a prominent photographer based in Cradock, is recognised for his prolific and detailed visual documentation, which offers insights into the region's social, political, and environmental history.
The archive, primarily comprising glass-plate negatives and lantern slides, functions as a visual ethnography of the Cradock district and the broader Karoo. - Date Issued
- Circa 1890–1945
- Type
- Collection
- Genre
- Photographs
- Subject
- Cradock (South Africa) -- History
- Hotels -- Fires -- Cradock -- Photographs
- Landslides -- South Africa -- Karoo -- Photographs
- Rockfalls -- South Africa -- Karoo -- Photographs
- Railroads -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- Photographs
- Processions -- South Africa -- Cradock -- Photographs
- South Africa -- Social life and customs -- Photographs
- Carriages and carts -- Photographs
- Nature (Aesthetics) -- Rivers -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Hutchinson, Walter Francis Hely-, Sir, 1849-1913
- Bloukrans Bridge (Eastern Cape, South Africa) -- Photographs
- Lidbetter, Helen Stirling Cotton
- Medium
- Glass negatives and lantern slides
Items
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Glass negative : Fourteen views of storm damage in Bree Street, Cradock, 5 March 1937, showing uprooted trees, buldozers clearing debris, and onlookers surveying the damage. -
Glass negative : Fourteen views of storm damage in Bree Street, Cradock, 5 March 1937, showing uprooted trees, buldozers clearing debris, and onlookers surveying the damage. -
Glass negative : Fourteen views of storm damage in Bree Street, Cradock, 5 March 1937, showing uprooted trees, buldozers clearing debris, and onlookers surveying the damage. -
Glass negative : Fourteen views of storm damage in Bree Street, Cradock, 5 March 1937, showing uprooted trees, buldozers clearing debris, and onlookers surveying the damage. -
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Glass negative : view of the Kruger wedding, showing the bride and her father, Cradock 1936. -
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Glass negative : Views of the new waterworks, Cradock, 22 April 1928. -
Glass negative : Views of the new waterworks, Cradock, 22 April 1928. -
Glass negative : Set of 7 negatives: Seven views of the opening speeches and ceremonies for the new waterworks, Cradock, 16 May 1928. -
Glass negative : Set of 7 negatives: Seven views of the opening speeches and ceremonies for the new waterworks, Cradock, 16 May 1928. -
Glass negative : Set of 7 negatives: Seven views of the opening speeches and ceremonies for the new waterworks, Cradock, 16 May 1928. -
Glass negative : Set of 7 negatives: Seven views of the opening speeches and ceremonies for the new waterworks, Cradock, 16 May 1928. -
Glass negative : Set of 8 negatives: Eight views of the Rocklands Fête, Cradock 1 May 1929, showing schoolgirls dancing around a may pole, doing dances in costume, and rhythmic gymnastics. -
Glass negative : Set of 8 negatives: Eight views of the Rocklands Fête, Cradock 1 May 1929, showing schoolgirls dancing around a may pole, doing dances in costume, and rhythmic gymnastics. -
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Glass negative : View of the Transport Camp, Cradock, 1900, showing tents and animals. -
Glass negative : View of the whites present, around the coffins of Olive Schreiner, her baby and her dog Nita, prior to the re-interment on Buffelskop, 13 August 1921. The negative is marked "Copyright. 7."